Saretta Morgan (she/her/hers)

Saretta Morgan was born in Appalachia and raised on military installations. Her work engages the ecologies and forms of intimacy that develop in the wake of United States militarization. She is author of the chapbooks "Feeling Upon Arrival" and "room for a counter interior." Her debut full-length collection, "Alt-Nature," considers sensual experiences of the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. 

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Awards: Foundation For Contemporary Arts Grantee

Communities: Arizona Author, LGBTQ+, African American, Military Veteran

What is Ecopoetry?

What is ecopoetry and why does it matter? Our three poets will discuss how poetry can explore our connection to the environment. With readings and discussion, they will demonstrate poetry’s ability to reimagine human relationships with the natural world and confront our planet's crises.

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sat, Mar 15, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store, Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Alison Hawthorne Deming, Jenny Irish, Saretta Morgan
Moderator: Susan Briante

Sonic Constellations

From arid deserts to storm-laden coastlines, each author delves into the musicality of language and the powerful role of landscape in poetry. Panelists will discuss how natural imagery and poetic techniques connect inner experience with the external world.

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sun, Mar 16, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store, Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Amber McCrary, Saretta Morgan, Leo Romero
Moderator: Cameron Quan

Book:

Alt-Nature

Poetry
Coffee House Press
January 2024
ISBN 9781566896979
160 pages

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. These poems open to the desert as a practice of sensuality. Landscapes and Black queer social ecologies illuminate an anti-map of interior poetics and converging horizons. Here, geography forms the basis of feeling. Being and becoming along meridians of environmental degradation, globalized/ing militarism, and incarceration, Saretta Morgan thinks through the languages that instantiate violence alongside those which prepare the body for love. More/less